Misplaced Pages

Omphale (Cardonne)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Omphale is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Cardonne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 2 May 1769. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte, was originally set by André Cardinal Destouches in 1701.

Sources

  • (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
Stub icon

This article about a French-language opera is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: